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37231 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak quoted: >Our Constitution, envy of the world Ok all you non-USers out there - do you envy our founding document? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 05:05:19 PDT 1999

37232 SOE Reform in China (form Henry Liu via Lou Proyect) -- rank: 1000

Ah, Henry Liu. Did anyone ever answer his question? >Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:19:06 -0800 >From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu at mindspring.com> >X-Accept-Language: en,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: Re: Capitalist support for fascism.... >Sender: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > >Thanks, Michael. >Do you, or any one else on the list, have any vi ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 17:00:51 PDT 1999

37233 Faludi -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:57:10 -0400 From: "Eric Beck" <rayrena at mail.accesshub.net> T Byfield wrote: >having said that, is there a problem? sure. has there been a problem >for some time? sure. What makes you say this? I don't think the matter--whether the problem is real or imagined--can be shooed away with a wave of the hand. Not that you must report back to me with a stack of citations, but it deserves more than just terse consideration ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 14:16:01 PDT 1999

37234 FBI spied on hippies -- rank: 1000

[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review. Touring with the Dead, how painfully dull that must have been! "Counterculture expert Todd Gitlin" is the funniest thing I've read all week.] APB NEWS: FBI and CIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate the bureau and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration monitored performances of groups such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. APBnews.com has obtained files the FBI maintained on both bands .... When those ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 14:31:31 PDT 1999

37235 review of bhaskar -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >there might be some strong reasons why leftists in the US reject state >planning, but there are i think some strong reasons why in the US state >planning is regarded as _external_ to capitalism (which i think is actually >what i said). the historical predominance of liberalism and free >enterprise stuff in the US makes state planning look like it's something >other than the regular operations of capitalism. Certainly U.S. ideology is rich with laissez-faire, but ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 14:27:52 PDT 1999

37236 Fwd: Re: litcritter bashing and the academic factory -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:35:43 +0100 Hmmm well, the distinction between "up" and "down" is taught to us in primary school, and up quarks don't point in the opposite direction to down quarks, so I guess Murray Gell-Mann's a worthless faker too. And superstrings aren't strings, so that's bad news for Hawking. And indeed, imaginary numbers aren't imaginary, which is bad news for someone else. I've never und ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 27 14:13:17 PDT 1999

37237 Zizek on Havel -- rank: 1000

"THE WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(via THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Great wrote: >I am much more used to debate on the basis of >scientific understanding rather than textual interpretation. Three questions. 1) What is the "World Socialist Movement"; 2) are you authorized to speak on its behalf; and 3) what "scientific understanding" do you have that's separate from "textual interpretation"? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 08:08:51 PDT 1999

37238 WTO caravan in NYC -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >WHO: The People's Global Action Caravan > >WHAT: North American tour kick-off rally in New York City; > Destination: Seattle > >WHEN: 7pm, Thursday, October 28, 1999 >WHERE: New York University, Main Building, Room 713, 100 Washington Square >East Yours truly will be on the panel at this event, holding forth about "globalization." Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 08:09:47 PDT 1999

37239 Chamber of Commerce/politics -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I like this line: "Large companies tend >to be less ideological than small business owners..." If "ideological" is the way Times reporters say "rabidly right-wing," it's probably right. Wall Street is full of Democrats, and the Fortune 500 can live happily with the business wings of both parties. Support for the loony right comes from smaller businesspeople and lone wolf/arriviste Wall Streeters (e.g. hedge fund hotshots rather than Gold ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 07:25:34 PDT 1999

37240 litcritter bashing and the academic factory -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >witness those academics >who came out of the woodwork to whisper their thanks >to sokal and bricmont for *fashionable nonsense*-- >they sounded like '50s reds (or pre-stonewall gays) >who'd been too frightened to venture out of the >closet. And they took this incredibly brave step to praise a book that silly? As its authors say, "We make no claim to analyze postmodernist [sic] thought in general; rather, our aim is to draw attention to a relatively litt ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 06:49:39 PDT 1999

37241 University, Inc. -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >8. During the first week of this month, in Manhattan's $229 per night >(a special rate!) Millennium Broadway Hotel, a conference was held with >the title, "Market-Driven Higher Education." The blurb for this >conference states, "It's Not Just Business, It's Your Future: Is Higher >Education for Sale? You bet it is. And everyone–corporations, >non-profits, government agencies–wants a piece of it. How do you take >advantage of market-d ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 20:52:47 PDT 1999

37242 NYT on Chinese embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an attachment] Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:29:19 -0500 From: / dave / <arouet at winternet.com> (Received this afternoon.) -- / dave / ==================================== Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:53:20 -0400 To: / dave / <arouet at winternet.com> From: Andrew Rosenthal <andyr at nytimes.com> Subject: Re: A Glaring Omission In-Reply-To: <3815FB3A.7850E98B at winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowe ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 17:23:17 PDT 1999

37243 World Bank in E Timor -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >what does this bit mean: >"During a meeting between the IMF and the >Indonesian Democratic Party of >Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) it was concluded that implementing a fixed >exchange rate was risky because of the lack of forex reserves," he said.< > >what are forex reserves? Foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by a central bank. > and why would they be related to fixing or not >exchange rates? FX reserves, measured typically as the number of mo ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 13:01:20 PDT 1999

37244 Thoughts after a week selling Europe to Yanks -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Not wanting to appear to be slagging Dennis' stock tips, or anything, but >I'd warn that Deutsche Bank's industrial ownership comes with a tasty dose >of exposure to the New York real estate market, through its ownership of >Bankers' Trust. And at this very moment, Donald Trump is driving piles for >a new 90 storey luxury apartment block. I'm reminded of the old bankers' >proverb: "Any time that Donald Trump is able to borrow any mon ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 09:26:09 PDT 1999

37245 World Bank in E Timor -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK SETS TWO-STAGE EAST TIMOR MISSION. A World Bank mission to East Timor will include an emergency relief phase followed by long-term reconstruction, Reuters reports a Bank spokesman said today. "Everything is to be done. East Timor is to be rebuilt from scratch," said Graham Barrett, the Bank's spokesman in Australia and New Zealand. "The first priority is obviously humanitarian, and that involves getting people back in their ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 09:31:01 PDT 1999